MARIO KIEFER

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” ~2 Peter 3:3-3:4 #FavoriteQuotes

“And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.” ~ Exodus 2:22 #FavoriteQuotes

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations #FavoriteQuotes

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus Aurelius, Mediations #FavoriteQuotes

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat #FavoriteQuotes

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. “ ~1 Corinthians 13:11 #FavoriteQuotes

“Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes

“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.” ~ the character Jubal Harshaw in ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ by Robert Heinlein. #FavoriteQuotes

“It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.” ~ Meditations, Marcus Aurelius #FavoriteQuotes

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.” ~ George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier #FavoriteQuotes

“Perhaps . . . that’s all that government is — just a gang with the most men, the most money, and the better arms.” ~ the character, Father Daniel, The Fifth (2021) #FavoriteQuotes

"We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing ... The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no on

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime . . .” — Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 (1966) #FavoriteQuotes

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953 #FavoriteQuotes

“It was in my anger that she was conceived. And it was in my rage that she was born. Through that anger; through that rage, I invited her.” ~ the character Hector/Alejandro in “The Ordinary Monster” #FavoriteQuotes

“. . .it was easier to be humane when one was not human.” ~ the character Nergal from “The Fifth” #FavoriteQuotes

“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit.” - Robert A. Heinlein, Author, ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’. #FavoriteQuotes

Secrecy begets tyranny. ~Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land #FavoriteQuotes

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~often attributed to Albert Einstein, but also to others, so - who really knows who said it first? #FavoriteQuotes

“Guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus’ works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.” ~ Slim from, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men #FavoriteQuotes